A quick illo I did for the December issue of DallsChild. With the project's scheduling, I had to create this piece about faith and spirituality during the election night... which is pretty crazy to think about now...

I wanted to center my image around spirituality/religious rituals that take place in the winter months. So, a family of 4 sitting together around a lit candle...maybe in prayer or a quiet moment of meditation. While the children are too young to really know what is going on, they take delight in their parents' rituals and enjoy being together around this candle.

I liked that I was able to relate to this article and my past (positive) experiences with religion in my family.

Rebecca had the genius idea of making a new sticker for every meeting!

Super excited to announce that I'm hosting monthly Art Club meetings at Non-Society Hands! We had our first "meeting" last Thursday and it was a huge success! I'm really excited to make art with new people in our community. We plan on using different mediums and themes every month; September was all about Sumi ink! I brainstormed monthly meeting with shop owners Rebecca and Tammy and we have amazing things planned for future Art Club meetings! I can't wait for October! Be sure to follow our Instagram accounts for updates on meeting days and times: Floating Heads and Non-Society Hands

Wedding planning was such a crazy experience for me and Stephen. Even though we were excited, we often felt completely overwhelmed with planning and budgeting. We both knew our wedding would be DIY with lots of personal touches, that meant I would handle all the invitations! Thankfully, illustrating and designing the invitations for our wedding was the easiest part of the whole process! Unlike other decisions I knew exactly what I wanted the invitations to look like and I felt that I captured our venues and personalities to a T. I am very proud with how they came out!

I drew inspiration for my Save the Dates and Invitation Suite from my wedding dress and Clouet Gardens (the community garden we chose for our venue!) I also included our dog, Poppy, on the Save the Dates... she couldn't attend the wedding so we had to think of a special way to include her. (All photos in inspiration slideshow are by Love is Rad Co.)

"Magic School" By Dismas Simmons

Dismas wrote about the day he was invited to the Lage Witch School to study magic! He was taught by Professor Nicki Minaj and studied the art of spell casting and potion making. One night, while doing his homework, Dismas accidentally shook his want a little too hard and created a tornado!

"The Birdface School" By Dejah Grimes

I had the privilege of working with Dejah in person! When we read through her story she really wanted her illustration to focus on the climax: when Dejah turns herself into a dragon, throws the goblins in a bag, and tosses them into the sea!

Here's the finished book! I'm so proud of everyone's finished stories and all the illustrations.Find out more about Big Class here !

I had the pleasure of creating some WWII themed temporary tattoos for the National WWII Museum!

My tattoos were revealed last Friday night at the 3rd Annual Drafts for Crafts fundraiser in the Boing Center.

The WWII museum has spent almost a decade restoring the PT-305, a patrol-torpedo navy boat, that was originally launched in Lake Pontchartrain more than 70 years ago.

Here are some of my tattoos in action:

Set #1, celebrating the women workers of WWII:

Set #2, VICTORY GARDENS!

Set #3, some miscellaneous patriotic tattoos:

Special thanks to the WWII museum for such a fun illustration job and for throwing a great party!

My partner, Stephen, and I really enjoyed ourselves. We saw John Goodman, ate a bunch of food, drank some sazeracs, danced all night, and pretty much had the best time ever. Seeing my designs around the room was super cool, too!

If you want to volunteer with Big Class now would be the time, they have 4 insanely fun projects lined up for spring! Visit BigClass.org/volunteer for more information on how to get involved.

Introducing Philomena, the fairy knight. Like most artists, I can find inspiration everywhere but I love to look back on my childhood idols and interests. This piece was inspired by beautiful fairy wallpaper that adorned the walls in my childhood bedroom. These wallpaper fairies lived among the flowers with bumblebees, and I liked to imagine they protected the bees that lived and survived off of the flowers in the garden. I was so excited about creating a lady knight protagonist based off of these fairies; one that will inspire children to love bees and our fragile ecosystem.

Here is some of my sketchbook character development:

What started out as a "Lady Knight/Women of Game of Thrones zine" is not a massive 3-volume people-positive-feminist-as-f*ck anthology featuring artists from all over the world. With a little over a week left in the Kickstarter campaign, we have raised $98,000 more than our $70,000 goal! I am so humbled and honored to be included in this movement, HUGE thank you to Annie Stoll and Kevin Stanton for orchestrating it all so perfectly.

Here's a look at the 2-book mock up:

Be sure to check out the complete list of 1001 Knights artists! And visit the Kickstarter page for more information (ALSO you also have 9 more days to score on these books and LOADS of bad-ass add ons, like posters, enamel pins, and patches!)

I couldn't help myself.... Valentine's Day is one of my favorites! Good Mardi Gras feelings went right into the weekend with a Galentine's picnic on Saturday and Valentine's Day Sunday with my dude. I made a few lil' images to celebrate love: